I love my microplane--I always turn it right side down, though, on the citrus, and it works fine--collects all the zest in one spot and then you just turn it over and tap it into a bowl and voila. But the little green one is cute. I love kitchen gadgets. Just bought a strawberry huller that I had to have. Go for the scooter!

I could not resist walking right into this pun (which I think you have purposely placed here) ~ scooter=falling ~ probably not a good idea. I like that lemon zester; looks like something from Sur La Table. I recall being surprised that there are public pools in the most unlikely places.

But when I saw the protective helmets also on offer it gave me pause...I don't like to go looking for injuries. I play it extra safe and never ski, skate or I guess scooter. Even biking seems trecherous.I'm a total chicken when it comes to physical risk.

Whose suede ballerines are those?????? I may, just may get to Paris for a miniatures show in June, but if not, my son is going for work and to stay a week with his French family (read: one of the girls whom he would love to marry but she has a boyfriend) so he can buy them for me.

Thank you SO very much for your blog, the photos, and enjoying the lemon zest story! The photos of the deserts are so lovely and bring back great memories of trying to decide which 3 deserts to try… LOL

I love your blog, Carol! Though I've been reading it for several years, I've never commented before, and I apologize for making my first comment a correction (I'm an editor, what can I say?). But I believe the verb for "to swim" is nager--which would explain why you would confuse it with neiger, right?

Carol, of all the "objects" to fall in love with in Paris, you chose a lemon zester! I have heard of many a famous coup de foudre but a lemon zester? Je crois, non! Mais, as the French say , chacun a son gout! Sorry, my keyboard is not franco-philed as yet so you will not get the accents. However, on the positive side, I think you would fit in tres bien witht he gourmets and the gourmands. Maureen